Curriculum, Community, and Urban School Reform

by Franklin, Barry M.

• ISBN13: 9780230612341
• ISBN10: 0230612342
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In this book, Barry Franklin uses the concept of community as a lens for interpreting urban school reform since 1960. Focusing on the curriculum, he explores the notion of community and then in a series of case studies, applies that concept to reform initiatives in a number of city school systems. Included are such reforms as compensatory education, community control, mayoral takeovers, educational partnerships, and smaller learning communities. This comprehensive work concludes with an epilogue that considers how we can employ the concept of cosmopolitanism to change the idea of community for a 21st century, globalized world and its schools.

Author Biography

Barry M. Franklin is Professor of Education and Adjunct Professor of History in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership at Utah State University. His previous books include Building the American Community: The School Curriculum and the Search for Social Control (1986) and From “Backwardness” to “At-Risk”: Childhood Learning Difficulties and the Contradictions of School Reform (1994).

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgment	p. xiii
List of Abbreviations	p. xvii
Community and Curriculum: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Urban School Reform	p. 1
Community Conflict and Compensatory Education in New York City: More Effective Schools and the Clinic for Learning	p. 29
Community, Race, and Curriculum in Detroit: The Northern High School Walkout	p. 57
Race and Community in a Black Led City: The Case of Detroit and the Mayoral Takeover of the Board of Education	p. 81
Educational Partnerships, Urban School Reform, and the Building of Community	p. 105
Educational Partnerships and Community: Education Action Zones and "Third Way" Educational Reform in Britain	p. 143
Smaller Learning Communities and the Reorganization of the Comprehensive High School	p. 175
Epilogue: Community in a Cosmopolitan World	p. 209
Notes	p. 215
Index	p. 249
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